THE HORROR!
(latimes) - As fast-food and other low-wage workers rally Thursday across the country for a $15 minimum wage, the Fight for $15 campaign in California will be shifting its focus to another goal: unionizing.
Thousands of Los Angeles area workers from the service and homecare industries are expected to strike Thursday as part of Fight for $15 rallies in 320 U.S. cities and 40 countries, according to the Service Employees International Union, which has backed the campaign.
Those workers will march to a rally at a McDonald's in the Arts District around noon.
"The demand from the original strikes in 2012 was $15 and a union," said Mary Kay Henry, international president of the SEIU. "Underpaid workers in California are now on a path to $15, but we think the way we can make these jobs good jobs ... is through a union."
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill last week to gradually increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. That same day, New York passed similar legislation to raise its hourly minimum to $15.
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